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• Les Jardins du Chateau: Thoiry, gardens classified in the English, the French ... and today.

• The 126 hectares of gardens of Chateau de Thoiry are labeled "Remarkable Garden" by the Ministry of Culture.
• In strolling through the 126-hectare park of Thoiry is a journey of more than 300 years you will do in the history of gardens. At Thoiry each season offers a new landscape. You can discover all kinds of nature: wild, orderly, tranquil, mysterious or romantic. Connoisseur, or just nature lovers you thousands of opportunities to marvel, an ancient tree, the color of a flower, and the story of a grove, the enchanting scent of lavender .. . Enter for a stroll in the history of the gardens of the 16th century until today.
• Originally, the gardens were first Thoiry a showcase for solar remains Raoul Moreau, owner of the castle.
• From 1708 Desgots Claude took over the fate of the park of Thoiry. Nephew of Andre Le Notre, the famous gardener of the king, he was the source of a new harmony in the arrangement of gardens, known as the "French garden". Claude Desgots imposed to flowers strict geometrical discipline. Symmetry, rigid geometric shapes embody the spirit of classical art of gardens.
• A Man of the classical period, which wants to master and owner of Nature, follows the 19th century a man beset by doubt, and dreaming of distant voyages. The Romantic spirit infuses the soul falls for the exotic, fashionable gardens "Anglo-Chinese" is now in full swing. New botanical species are acclimated, the park adds new species of oak trees alongside more than a century old.
• In 1968, some 450 hectares of the Thoiry wildlife park was transformed into. An original landscape was invented, the countryside and the woods surrounding refurbished to provide 1 000 wild animals and exotic territory of more than 120 hectares.
• Meanwhile the botanical garden collections continue to be developed. The Comtesse de La Panouse created a scented garden, a hill climbing roses, a rose garden with roses botanical and countless groves of rare trees and shrubs in all, over 30 000 trees and shrubs and even more perennials and bulbs were planted since it began the restoration of the gardens in the 1970s. The old English garden, made by Vare and Chatelain, enriched with a background of magnificent trees, redwoods, oaks, beeches and huge rhododendrons more than a century old. Recommended for early Autumn Garden by Timothy Vaughan, 30 years, she has continued the restoration, aided by the landscape architect Alain Richert. Most taking part in the conservation of wild flower species and naturalized, she worked with gardeners to propagate and protect the entire area, the native daffodils, bluebells, lilies, anemones and nemerosa veris primavera. Nostalgic for the flamboyant colors of Autumn in his native America, she created a garden of trees in autumn foliage reddening oaks and maples of America, Prunus, liquidambars, Nyssa ... then recurred in the English Garden with a colorful spring aisle of a collection of Pieris and Photinia. The maze, created with the English landscape Adrian Fisher Mazes specialist in 2003, has over 5 600 yews, over 2.5 km of walkways twists and turns on the theme of Dream Poliphile!

• Calendar of Flowering Gardens Thoiry: Some of the trees, shrubs, bulbs and perennials to see in the Gardens:

• January: Camelia oleifera, Helleborus, Lonicera fragrantissima, Prunus subhirtella, Ulex europaeus.
• February sasanqua Camellias and oleifera, Daphne Mezereum, Jasminum nudiflorum, Lonicera fragrantissima, Prunus subhirtella, Ulex europaea.

March: Camelias williamsii, Chaenomeles, forsythia, Hamamelis, Mahonia, Narcissus, Viburnums.

• April: Anemone nemerosa, Berberis, Camelia 'Blood of China', Daphnes, Hyacinths Wood / Scillas, Kerria japonica, Magnolia: campbelli, stellata, and soulangianas, Narcissus, Pieris, Photinia, Primula veris, Prunus: laurocerasus, padus, ?? Sato Zakura ', serrula,?? Tai Haku', triloba, and others, Pyrus calleyrana, Rhododendron luteum, Ribes, Scillas (Bluebell), Tulips.
• May: Aesculus briotii, Abeliophyllums distichum, Amelanchier, silaquastrum Cercis, Cornus: florida, kousa, and nuttalli, Davidia involucrata, Halesia monticola, daylilies, Kolkwitzia amabilis and Kobus Magnolia stellata Malus floribunda, etc. burkwoodii Osmanthus, Rosa species and hybrids , Paeonia: officialis, japonica, and rockii ostii, Philadelphus, Pyrus nivalis, Syringa vulgaris hybrids, Weigela, Wisterias, Viburnum species and hybrids.
• June: Ceanothus, Exochordas, Euphorbias, Kalmia, Neillia tibeticus, Nicotiana, Penstemon, Rhododendron: ponticum calendulaceum, fargesii, loderi, yakushimanum, and viscosum, the Rose Garden, Syringa Pekinoensis, Styrax japonica.
• July: Buddleia globosa, Catalpas, Cladastris, Cytisus battandieri, Diospyrus khaki eucryphia, Koelreuteria, Lavendula, Lilium candidum and others, Liriodendron, Olearia, Romneya coulteri, Stuartias, Yuccas.
• August: Campsis radicans: Hydrangea species and hybrids (300), Roses & Perennials.
• September: Abelia grandiflora; various Clematis, Roses, Sedum spectabile.
• October: Arbutus, Garden of Autumn.
• December: Cedar Sequoia, Pinetum, Helleborus, Prunus subhirtella and do not forget the Christmas tree at Castle!